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1. About old Excel users. I really would like OO to be the standard. But the
truth is MS Office is the standard. I've been in IT for more than 20 years and I
know what I am saying. More than half of all users don't know the word
"spreadsheet". They pronounce only "excel spreadsheet". But leave Excel for a
moment. There is another open source spreadsheet Gnumeric. Even more, the world
is moving to Web interface. We have great Web applications: EditGrid
spreadsheet, fast improving Google spreadsheet. All of them process MATCH
function like Excel.
2. About consistency. If you open Find&Replace dialog in Calc you have "regular
expressions" box unchecked by default, like in Writer and most known text
editors.
3. Than you said "most of our users are used to it". I believe the majority of
OO users don't use regular expressions. Not every programmer can use regular
expressions and OO is design for office users not programmers. Thus it's much
simpler for minority of advanced users to check "regular expressions" box after
new installation than for majority of common users to understand why
MATCH(A1,A2,1) works as expected but MATCH(A1,A2,0) works different.
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